- Was the first Vice President to preside over cabinet meetings in the absence of the President when President Woodrow Wilson suffered a serious stroke 1919. Marshall resisted calls for him to name himself Acting President under the Articles of Succession, even though he could have legally done so on the basis that Wilson's stroke had prevented him from carrying out his duties as President.
- Vice President of the United States (1913-1921.)
- Was the first Vice President (since Daniel Tompkins) in nearly one hundred years to serve two consecutive terms under the same President.
- Governor of Indiana (1909-1913).
- He adopted a child (named Clarence Ignatius Morrison) during his Vice-Presidency. The child died from acidosis at age 3 in 1920.
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